I’d like to have a friendlier time interval for certificate expiration and renewal.

Currently, it’s set at 90 days. 90 days doesn’t divide evenly into anything, so I can’t just set up 4 individual renewal points during the year – I’d be 5 days off if I did that. I can’t set it up every three months, because, obviously, that’s more than 90 days.

I tried setting it up as a cron job that runs once every two months, and I was rewarded with this:

The following certs are not due for renewal yet:
/etc/letsencrypt/live/carlson.workingcode.com/fullchain.pem (skipped)
No renewals were attempted.

Could we have a slightly cron-friendlier timeout interval? I know I can set up a daily job that updates a counter or uses a timestamp calculation to determine when to try renewing, but it’d really be nice if this were simpler.

It looks as if you have “letsencrypt” which is the old name for the same client, although probably not the latest version.

How did you generate your certificates ? I’m guessing ( since you have a stop and restart apache ) that you obtained the certs in standalone mode. It may be worth updating that, so you use your existing apache, that way there is zero downtime when renewing.